Resistive force
# Resistive force

In physics, resistive force is a force, or the vector sum of numerous forces, whose direction is opposite to the motion of a body, and may refer to:

* Friction, during sliding and/or rolling
* Drag (physics), during movement through a fluid (see fluid dynamics)
* Normal force, exerted reactionally back on the acting body by the compressive, tensile or shear stress within the recipient body
* Intermolecular forces, when separating adhesively bonded surfaces
* Magnetic repulsion, when a magnetic object moves against another magnetic field
* Gravity, during vertical takeoff
* Mechanical load, in a simple machine
